The University will become the BFI’s first higher education partner in the United States, curating film screenings with BFI curators, offering study abroad programs for students, and providing access to the BFI player subscription service—which features the best of historic British feature and documentary films—and other programs.
Fairfield University and the British Film Institute (BFI) have announced a new educational partnership designed to bring the best of British film to the University’s students and public audiences, as well as provide study abroad opportunities at the BFI National Archive, home to one of the world’s greatest collections of screen heritage.
The partnership will foster a variety of educational initiatives, including access to the BFI Player—a subscription streaming video service—for the University’s students and faculty, as well as a host of study abroad opportunities in Britain for students and alumni.
The partnership begins this fall with a film series, Bond and Beatles: British Film Icons of the 1960s, which includes screenings of Goldfinger (1964), A Hard Day’s Night (1964), and Thunderball (1965) at the University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts. The series, presented by Fairfield’s Jay Rozgonyi, instructor in film studies, will examine how these legendary cultural figures that emerged in the 1960s transformed the image of Britain, and continue to resonate throughout global popular culture. Each film will be preceded by a brief video introduction by a BFI curator, placing the film in its historical and cultural context.
Fairfield University will be the BFI’s first university partner in the United States, building on their successful partnerships with universities across the United Kingdom.
